AT HEADQUARTERS DOWNTOWN, AT HEADQUARTERS DOWNTOWN, CHANNEL 4 THE LOCAL STATION. LOCAL MAN IN THE HOSPITAL RIGHT NOW WHO SAYS HE WAS HIT ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WHILE CHANGING A TIRE ON A WORK TRAILER. WITNESS SAY THE DRIVER WHO HIT HIM TOOK OFF. 32-YEAR-OLD BRIAN HAHN WAS HIT ALONG NEW KINGS ROAD IN NORTH WEST JACKSONVILLE NEAR PITTSBURGH A TRUCK SPWEVSH AND INTO CAUTION CONE SET UP FROM BEHIND. ELIZABETH SPOKE TO THE MAN IN THE HOSPITAL TODAY AND JOINS US LIVE FROM THE SCENE. LEFT AFTER. Reporter: THIS IS THE THE THE ROAD WHERE RYAN SAYS HE WAS HIT. FIRST THING DID HE WAS SET UP SAFETY CONE LIKE HERE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROQUE. ALSO SAYS HE WAS PRETTY FAR FROM SAYS HE WAS PRETTY FAR FROM THE. THERE'S A BIKE LANE AND EMERGENCY LANE AND MORE ROOM AFTER. THAT UNFORTUNATELY IT DIDN'T HELP BUT HE'S BLESSED TO BE HELPED AND NEW APPRECIATION FOR LIFE. GOD HAS HIS HANDS ON EVERYTHING JUST OBVIOUS. I THOUGHT WHEN I FELT THAT IMPACT I WAS GONE. E-BRIAN HAHN SAYS WHEN HE FELT A TRUCK RUN INTO HIM WHILE CHANGING A TIRE, HE DIDN'T THINK HE WAS GOING TO MAKE IT. AFTER SURGERY BROKEN TAILBONE AND SCREWS HOLDING HIS BONES TOGETHER HE HAS RECOVERED AT U.S. HAPPY. HE WORK FOR MON0POOL CONSTRUCTION AND GATHER A FLAT TIRE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. I REMEMBER JUST AN IMPACT. SPIRJ THROWN AGAINST THE TRAILER I WAS WORKING ON. SCREAMING CALL FOR CO-WORK INVESTIGATORS CALL 911. Reporter: HAHNS SAYS HIS BOSS AND WIFE DETERMINED TO FIND WHO WAS DRIVING THE TRUCK THAT HIT HIM BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T STOP. AMANDA THE TOOK THESE PICTURES FROM A BUSINESS BLOCKS AWAY FROM THE CLASH. THIS WAS TAKEN RIGHT BEFORE THE ACCIDENT. JUST TO ACCEPT THAT SOMEBODY DID THIS THE TO THE ANOTHER PERSON. DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO STOP. AND WE NEED THE PUBLIC'S HELP. Reporter: HAHN AS 3 KIDS AND WIFE AND SAYS FAMILY HAS NEVER MEANT SO MUCH TO HIM. AT THE END OF THE DIFFICULT I'M ALIVE. IT'S A MIRACLE FROM GOD. ABOUT COULD HAVE BEEN 2 OR THREE INCHES SPVSHTION YOU KNOW, OVER TO THE RIGHT OR LEFT AND WOULDN'T BE SUCH A MIRACLE, YOU KNOW. Reporter: NOW THIS SIGN IN MEMORY OF MICHAEL ENGLAND THIS IS WHERE HE WAS KILLED LAST YEAR WHILE WALKING NEAR THE SAME INTERSECTION OF NEW KING ROAD AND PITCH ROAD. NOW I AM TOLD AND HIS WOSHTION AND NOT HEARD FROM DETECTIVES AND SWEET WITH THEM SOON TO GET MORE INFORMATION ON THAT SURVEILLANCE VIDEO. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THIS CRIME STOP RS THAT THE NUMBER.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -

A local man is recovering in the hospital after he said he was hit on the side of the road while changing a tire on a work trailer.

Bryan Hahn, 32, said he was working underneath the trailer when a truck swerved off the road into caution cones he had set up. He was bent over on his knees and elbows when the trailer from the truck hit him from behind.

Another worker, who saw the accident happen, said the truck drove off but was seen pulling into a gas station less than a mile up the road.

Hahn, who works for Manos Pool Construction, said a tire blew on his work trailer on Wednesday at New Kings Road near Pitts Road.

He said he followed proper protocol by setting up safety cones. He was off to the side of the road and there was a bike lane, emergency lane and several feet between Hahn and the road.

Unfortunately, none of that helped him. He said he doesn't remember much but said it was terrifying.

“I remember just an impact,” Hahn said from his hospital bed. “I remember being thrown against the trailer I was working on and screaming to my coworkers to call 911.”

Hahn said the accident has given him a new appreciation for life.

“It's obvious to me now that God's got his hands on everything,” Hahn said. “It's just obvious. I thought when I felt that impact that I was gone. Just don't take life for granted.”

After surgery, a broken tailbone and having screws inserted to hold his bones together, Hahn is miraculously recovering at UF Health.

Hahn said right now he is unsure about his recovery process and doesn't even know how long he will be in the hospital. But he said he is working with physical therapists, and they said it could be anywhere from three to six months for him to make a full recovery, and there is a chance he could have trouble walking in the future.

Hahn said his boss and his wife are determined to find who was driving that truck that hit him, because the driver didn't stop.

Amanda Pike, Hahn's friend and co-worker, took a picture from surveillance video from a business blocks away from the crash (pictured below).

“It's just hard to accept that somebody did this to another person and left them, didn't even bother to stop, and we need the public's help,” Pike said. “Anyone that day that drove by or the local businesses we've talked to personally, we need your help.”

Hahn and his wife have three children, and he said his family has never meant so much to him.

“At the end of the day I'm alive,” Hahn said. “It's a miracle from God. It could have been 2 or 3 inches over to the right or left, and it wouldn't have been such a miracle.”

Hahn's boss and his wife said they have not heard much from police on the investigation.

They said they can't get a copy of the surveillance video, due to policy restrictions and that the other businesses in the area don't have surveillance that shows the road, so they say right now, they don't have a lot to go by.

Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS.

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